Netflix Looking for Software Engineer (L5) – Games Partner Engineering at Los Gatos, CA Full Time

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services with over 230 million paid memberships in over 190 countries. In addition to great shows and movies, our membership also includes exclusive access to a growing portfolio of high-quality games. The Games Partner Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to improve the game developer experience.

The Games Partner Engineering team is responsible for partnering closely with our game studio development partners who work to integrate functionality built within Netflix to enable awesome games to be available to millions of members around the world. We also partner closely with teams within Netflix to help shape their work to best meet the needs of our game studio partners. As such, Games Partner Engineers wear many different hats, have a tremendous impact on the development of games, and get to solve a broad range of challenges.

As we grow and scale our gaming initiative, the Games Partner Engineering team will be a critical player in the future success of Games at Netflix. The Games Partner Engineering team is at the nexus of all the excitement – and is currently refining our approach so we can continue to meet our vision for making game development at Netflix a joyful experience. Netflix is redefining what it means to make games along with new ways to engage with content and we welcome you to join us in our journey!

Who You Are

• You have professional experience building games, ideally as a server, tools or backend engineering a Live Service game
• You’re curious and enjoy learning, leveling up your team along the way.
• You are a generalist who enjoys being cross-functional, having some background in a few tech stacks will be a bonus here
• You are adept at influencing without authority, comfortable with being a canary and collaborative with your approach to partnering with a wide variety of people.
• You are self-directed and proactively look for solutions to bridge the needs of the business with technology.
• You are an open and proactive communicator who shares context, ideas, and feedback while educating others to become more self-sufficient
• You are comfortable with some degree of uncertainty and ambiguity

What you will do

• You’ll be among the first developers, integrating work as our game development partners will, new work developed by Games Experience Engineering and across Netflix, developing upgrade strategies, documentation and raising concerns before release.
• You’ll build sample games, reference apps and code snippets to test theories and push the boundaries of what’s possible before our development partners do
• You’ll spend time with our game development partners working to solve difficult problems across many platforms and game engines, with game studios across the world.
• You’ll influence the work prioritized by Netflix to ensure optimal development experience.
• You’ll work closely with teams within Netflix, getting a deeper understanding of how our functionality is built to help level up our game development experience.

Learn More

• We believe safe spaces where everyone can be their authentic selves is the key to a successful team so we welcome and embrace all identities, cultures, and backgrounds.
• Our US-based team is happy to embrace remote work

At Netflix, we carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors to determine your personal top of market. We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and consider your specific job, skills, and experience to get it right. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary and will also be dependent on your location.

The overall market range for roles in this area of Netflix is typically $100,000 – $700,000.

This market range is based on total compensation (vs. only base salary), which is in line with our compensation philosophy. Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.